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- MediaMonkey 2.5.3
- Readme - May 6, 2006
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-
- 1. Introduction
-
- MediaMonkey is an easy-to-use media organizer for serious music collectors. It catalogs
- music files (MP3s, WMAs, OGG, MPC, APE, FLAC, VQF, WAV files) and audio CDs, and helps you:
-
- - Organise your music and help you find the tracks you're looking for
- - Tag tracks in your library (automatically) in a variety of formats (ID3v1&v2, OGG, WMA, APE2, RIFF)
- - Play MP3s and other audio formats, level volume, and display funky visualizations
- - Synchronize tracks with your portable audio player
- - Record CDs into OGG, MP3, and WMA files
- - Convert any supported format into into OGG, WAV, MP3 or WAV files
- - Create playlists and music mixes quickly (manually or automatically) to suit any occasion
- + Much, much more...
-
-
- 2. OS Requirements
-
- MediaMonkey has been tested on:
- - Windows XP
- - Windows 2000 (SP3/SP4)
- - Windows 98
- - Windows ME
-
-
- 3. Installation
-
- a) Double-click the file you downloaded, and follow the on-screen instructions.
-
- b) If you had a previous version of MediaMonkey installed, it is recommended that you rescan your
- drives for any Album Art so that the 'Files to Edit|Unknown Album Art' node is updated. To do
- so, press <Insert> to get to the 'Add Tracks' dialog. Press the 'Options' button and uncheck
- 'Only for files with changed timestamp or file size', and then select all your drives and click
- 'Ok' to rescan them. After you're done, re-enable the 'Only for files with changed timestamp
- or file size' option for better performance.
-
- If you had a previous version of MediaMonkey Gold installed, and deleted it prior to
- installing the new version of MediaMonkey, then the configuration settings of your Virtual CD
- will be lost. Go to: Tools | Options | Virtual CD & Preview, and reset the Virtual CD directory
- to its previous location.
-
- c) Note: If you receive a database-related error, it likely means that data access components on your
- operating system aren't up-to-date or have been corrupted. If this occurs:
- -Install the latest version of Jet Drivers appropriate to your operating system
- (version 4.0 SP8 for all OSes except WinME) via:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downloads/updates/default.aspx#jet
- -AFTER the Jet drivers have been installed, install MDAC 2.7 Service Pack 1 Refresh via:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downloads/updates/default.aspx#MDACDownloads
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- This should trigger components of the Jet drivers to register, after which your system
- (& MediaMonkey) should function properly.
-
- d) If no sound is heard when you try to play a track, you may want to try switching output plug-ins.
- Go to Tools | Options | Player | Output Plug-ins and change from DirectSound output to
- WaveOut output.
-
- e) If you have problems playing or encoding WMA (Window Media Audio) files, it may
- be due to outdated Windows Media Drivers. You can install the most recent drivers from:
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx
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- Note: MediaMonkey supports WMA DRM 9, but does not yet support files protected by WMA DRM 10.
-
- f) If you try to generate a report or use Scripting functions and receive an error, it is likely
- because Windows Scripting functionality hasn't been enabled (sometimes the case in Windows 98).
- The error that appears is "Microsoft VBScript runtime error. ActiveX component can't create
- object: 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' ". If this occurs on Win98, go to the Control Panel and:
- -Click 'Add/Remove Programs'
- -Select the 'Windows Setup' Tab
- -Choose 'Accssories' (List) and click 'Details'
- -Check that "Windows Scripting Host" is checked off
-
- g) If you use the JAWS screen reader for the visually impaired, you should copy several files to
- ensure that JAWS works correctly with the skinned version of MediaMonkey:
- Copy http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/MediaMonkey.jcf and http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/MediaMonkey.jgf
- Into the directory: <JAWSFolder>\Settings\ENU\
- Note: <JAWSFolder> is either C:\JAWS50, C:\JAWS510,
- or C:\Documents and settings\<Username>\Aplication data\Freecom Scientific\JAWS\6.0\
-
-
- 4. Advanced Configuration
-
- a) Command line options
- A number of flags can be set when running MediaMonkey from the command line:
- /NoSplash - don't show splash screen when starting MediaMonkey
- /Next - play files after the current track
- /Add - add files to the Now Playing queue
- /Party - start up in Party Mode
- /Play - start up and play whatever is currently in the Now Playing queue
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- You can use these options as follows:
- MediaMonkey /NoSplash /Add "My song.mp3"
-
- b) .ini file customization
- MediaMonkey saves configuration information on a per-user basis to an .ini file stored in:
- C:\Documents and Settings\USERX\My Documents\My Music\MediaMonkey\MediaMonkey.ini
-
- Advanced users can edit the MediaMonkey.ini file to change several settings. If you
- plan on making such changes, it's prudent to back up your .ini file beforehand. Also
- make certain to close MediaMonkey before making such changes so that it doesn't
- overwrite any of the changes you've made.
-
- i) To change the location of the database from a user's \My Documents\My Music\MediaMonkey\
- folder, move the .mdb database file from its current location to a new location
- and add the following line to the [System] section of the .ini file:
- DBName=full path\filename.mdb (for example DBName=C:\My Documents\Databases\music.mdb)
-
- ii) To eliminate illegal characters when auto creating file names from tags, there is a section
- [FilenameMappings] in the .ini file, where hexadecimal values define mappings between characters.
- For example E1=61 means that "/" is mapped to "a". You can modify these settings if you're
- adventurous. You can find hexadecimal values of characters in the "Character map" application
- included with Windows. Note that unicode is not supported in this feature.
-
- iii)To change the manner in which MediaMonkey attempts to interpret Track Properties from track
- organization and filename, edit the [SongMasks] section (MediaMonkey attempts to match the masks
- in that section in sequential order).
-
- c) Shared environments
- If you wish to share MediaMonkey's configuration file and or database among multiple users:
- i) Move the MediaMonkey.ini file to the \Program Files\MediaMonkey directory. This will cause
- all users to have the same MediaMonkey settings, however, you must make sure that all
- users have appropriate permissions to read/write to this directory.
- ii) Ensure that your MediaMonkey database has correctly set permissions so that all users
- can read/write to the database.
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-
- 5. Known Issues
-
- Please see the support faq at: http://faq.mediamonkey.com
-
-
- 6. Plug-in Configuration: DeFX for Winamp v0.97
-
- DeFX by Franco Catrin is included with MediaMonkey, allowing you to use MediaMonkey for karaoke via
- its voice removal function. The full features of DeFX are:
- a) Pitch Modulation. Choose between Chorus, Flange or Phaser (New), and set your favourite
- configuration, changing Rate, Depth and Amount of effect.
- b) Voice Removal. Remove the center channel depending of the specified amount. Most singers
- record their voices on this channel, if so, the voice will be removed.
- c) Reverberation. Make your music sounds like it were played inside/outside a big room.
- Pitch change, rise or move down the pitch of the song without affecting tempo.
- d) Balance. Lets you hear only the left or right channel on both speakers.
-
- To activate this plug-in, simply go to Tool|Options|Plugins|DSP Effects and make Defx active.
- Press Configure and you'll see a message box asking you to launch the control panel, just press OK.
-
- For more information about how the voice removal effect works and a full version history, see:
- -The DeFXInfo.htm file in the plugins directory
- -The new Defx www site at: http://defx.sourceforge.net/
-
- If you want to contact Franco, write to ancelot@directo.cl. For information about future updates
- send a mail with the subject "I use DeFX" to be added to a mail list.
-
- THANKS to all the people who have give some attention to this little plug-in. All the people who
- have helped me without knowing it, publishing their knowledge on the Internet... the real democracy!.
- A great kiss (ah!) to my dear girlfriend Claudia (Kuaria) for his support, love, comprehension and
- everything she knows =D
-
- Many thanks also to Claudia's brother Miguel (ex-Mr_Peco, now cibersurfer_master) Claudio Nicora for
- his great idea to improve the Voice Removal effect. As you may see... it's IMPLEMENTED from v0.97,
- Marc S. Ressl for his help in the MuchFX bug, Guillermo Vargas and family for their continuos support,
- from the '80s, Johanne for his first lessons about audio when we worked together when I was I child.
- More friends and their ideas: Cesar Hernandez, Giorgio Marazzi, Rafael Ramirez, JUCA, Pastelito....
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- Franco Catrin L.
- Email: ancelot@directo.cl
- Homepage: http://www.ancelot.8k.com
- ICQ: Ancelot (30449379)
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- 7. Feedback and Questions
-
- If you have any comments or questions, we'd be happy to hear from you. Contact
- information follows:
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- - Support Page: http://faq.mediamonkey.com
-
- - Discussion Forums: http://www.MediaMonkey.com/forum
-
- - Technical support e-mail: support@MediaMonkey.com
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- - Homepage: http://www.MediaMonkey.com
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- 8. Acknowledgements
-
- MediaMonkey has become what it is thanks to a large extended community. Aside from those
- already mentioned in the 'About' panel, special thanks go to:
-
- - Tyll Zybura, Highelf, & Onkel Enno for the German translation
- - Pablo Shmerkin for the Spanish translation
- - Octopod for the French translation
- - Oliver Tonet for the Italian translation
- - UI, Felix Atagong, Lowlander for the Dutch translation
- - Paulino Michelazzo, Gervßsio Ant⌠nio for the Portuguese translation
- - Emil Bobesic for the Croatian translation
- - Jozsef Tamas Herczeg for the Hungarian translation
- - Jaroslaw U for the Polish translation
- - Shashka (Alex) for the Russian translation
- - Panos Thomas for the Greek translation
- - Pavle Lacarac (aka Peke) for work on the plugins
- - Russell Samuels for doing all the stuff no one else wants to
- - Ludek Stoklasa (aka Spiker) for coding kick ass features and putting up with Russell's comments :)
- - Jiri Hajek for coding into the wee hours every morning and selling his soul to the monkey
- + Countless testers and reviewers who've helped MediaMonkey grow every day
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